“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”

― Frank Herbert

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Dawn is a long time coming now.

You can tell it's getting to be Fall. The sun sets earlier and rises later. I was up and ready to go at four thirty this morning, but it wasn't light enough to work outside until almost seven. I got the morning chores done, now I'm going to have breakfast.

After that, I am going to Walmart. I heard on the CB last night that a shipment of 9mm came into Walmart last evening. If I go early enough, I can perhaps get three boxes. I don't need any more ammo, but I've been buying it for so long it's hard to stop and the price is good. According to the fellow on the radio, the Walmart has canned corned beef and canned roast beef as well. That's a new "Great Value" product, and the two types of canned beef have been selling out as soon as they hit the shelves. You can't find large sacks of rice or beans, and the man who was there recently said none were on the shelves when he was there.

CB is useful for tuning in to the local chatter boxes and keeping abreast of what's going on in the county at the grass roots level. I don't do a lot of transmitting unless I really need to, because if you do everybody knows you are "out there."

Today I need:

dog biscuits

soap (for the storage supplies)

dish soap (for storage)

hot sauce (for strorage)

dog food

cat food

ferret food

chicken scratch

coffee (for storage)

rice and beans if available in quantity (for storage)

salt (for the store room)

shampoo (for the storeroom)

I have spent very little on supplies in July and August. Instead, I've used up the things in storage as much as I could. Winter is coming, and I always rotate my entire stored water supply and as much of the perishable food and household items as I can before winter comes. That way everything is fresh, as much as possible at any rate.

I have 24 cans of coffee stored, but having just finished another of the A. American books I have decided to increase the amount on hand. Same with TP, I'm doubling the amount I store. I already bought more cooking oil , more Crisco, more canned cheese and butter, and replaced a lot of the things like powdered milk and sugar I used up from the long term storage supplies.

I'd like to hand this place over to the kids in good order, with everything they would need in hard times. I think we'll get those events in my life time, but I don't see how they can be staved off much longer than that at best. So, most days I work on something or other, because there's never a time when one of the buildings, or a drainage ditch, or the Jeep trail, or something, doesn't need repairs.

Even the obscenely dishonest main stream media can't disguise the fact that things are deteriorating fast. When you hear things like "seasonally adjusted" statistics on unemployment, or " statistically adjusted" economic numbers, you know they are lies. All you have to do is open your eyes as you travel around to see how things are though. Bad things are happening now. They're going to get worse and eventually, probably sooner rather than later, they are going to start happening here. When that day comes, there will be things I didn't get done, and equipment or supplies I needed but didn't buy. At least I'll know I did the best I could.

14 comments:

I have, for a while now, felt a sense of urgency to make sure my supplies are all in order, with increasing a years worth beyond that time. I thought it was just my suspicious nature that doesn't buy into the propaganda, but I find that more and more folks are on the same page. I don't know what will happen, but it ain't gonna be pretty. My kids won't take over my place of residence, but at least they can divide up what I have stored to hopefully make their lives a bit easier.

Animals can sense when some catastrophe is looming. I suppose the more aware human beings can do that, too. The pressure is building on all of us. I told someone the other day that though I am not at all religious, I got out my bible and read Revelations again. There's a real visceral feeling of unease on most of the blogs I read. The race problems , the collapse of the Southern border, Islamic terrorism, blatant lies about the economy and unemployment from the government, Obama and his little pen, ruling by Diktat through Executive Orders, Russia , so much going on and so little being done about any of it.

Not well enough, Lisa. Although I am meticulous with my record keeping, I sometimes feel I'm not storing enough of particular items. I originally set up my stock levels based on the superb (and free) Mormon computer program written for that purpose. You put in the number of people you are planning for, their gender and age, and it gives you what you need of each item. Pages and pages of items. But, you have to fine tune it for your own personal requirements.

I'm not going to deny that I tuned almost all the news out for the long holiday weekend. It was tough this morning turning the news back on it was almost a shock after being able to relax. The events are coming at us faster and faster and what we are being told has to be taken with grain towards the fact that it's worse than what they are reporting and in some cases just outright false.

Even the government mouth piece drones acknowledge things are getting bad, and that none of the big issues of the day are getting fixed. There's no leadership in the White House, no leadership in the Congress. We are just sailing blindly into the storm with no one at the helm.

Inger, I try very hard to be organized. Some would say excessively so. For instance, when I read post apocalyptic fiction, (and I read a lot of it) I always have a yellow legal pad. When I get a new idea from a book, I write it down , in detail, with the appropriate references. Then I implement the idea, having adjusted it if necessary to fit in with our own situation here.

With food storage, you need some kind of record keeping. I use spreadsheets, saved on the computer and on three backup disks. I can charge my computer off the generator, so even if the internet goes the data on the system will be preserved. I keep one backup disk in a Faraday cage, along with an older laptop.

It's good you are stocking up. You live in a very beautiful place, but some things you can't grow there, like coffee. So what you have on the shelves when something happens is what you will have to make do with.

Good to talk to you. I am thinking of you folks out there and was glad to see life seems to be steady and peaceful for you.

Well, I couldn't agree with you more, but there are those who don't. I think I mentioned the lady who was talking to me in a doctors waiting room here not long ago. She firmly believed that there was no need to do any preparing , because she "paid taxes and that's what the government is for." She was really an unbelievable person. Nice enough, but so out of touch with reality that it was bewildering.

I'm not a big follower or network tv news. I do however watch fox news on occasion and this one time it paid off;

the writer that wrote "One Second After" wrote a novella about schools being attacked by Isis here in the U.S.He did a good interview on tonights episode of 'Greta Van Susteran' on the threat of Isis.I have to admit he (the writer, William Forescythe) did get a little 'carried away' and about he personally feels about Isis. I can't blame him, however I would have been a little bit more logical. If "Greta Van Susteran was interviewing me. I probably would have said 'the hell with it' I would have popped open a bottle of beer with my Kimber 1911 on my hip and told the world we need to 'kill everyone of them towel headed, goat screwing, stone age, Isis' rat bastards"

But how to do it?

“The worst evil which befalls our race is, that when we are wronged and plundered, all the world laughs around, and we are compelled to suppress our sense of injury, and to smile tamely, when we would revenge bravely.”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

Sooth

"I certainly do not wish to live in a society dominated by blacks, Mexicans, and Orientals. Look at Africa, Mexico, and Asia."

Edward Abbey

Moon Phases

Practical News

Edward Abbey

"It might be wise for us, as American citizens, to consider calling a halt to the mass influx of even more millions of hungry, ignorant, unskilled, and culturally-morally-genetically, impoverished people...Why not [support immigration]? Because we prefer democratic government, for one thing; because we still hope for an open, spacious, uncrowded, and beautiful--yes beautiful!--society, for another. The alternative, in the squalor, cruelty and corruption of Latin America, is plain for all to see."

Bugging Out. It's fraught with peril.

T-28 : They don't make 'em like that anymore!

Crank that big radial up.

George Orwell

He knew whereof he spoke.

Self Defense

"There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts, a law which comes to us not by training, or custom, or reading. A law which has come to us not by theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right."

Marcus Tullius Cicero 106- 43 B.C.

Ferret and friend.

Ferratus: Little Thief

but good friends

Orwell

Steven Seagal

"There was a time when I thought I was doing a good thing with good guys for a good cause. Looking back, I think I really wanted to be a warrior."

The Magic Ferret

“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot...”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

John S. Mill

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

Oswald Spengler

"This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves...."

Honor

" Everything that is called duty, the prerequisite for all genuine law and the substance of every noble custom, can be traced back to honor. If one has to think about it, one is already without honor."

Oswald Spengler "Thoughts"

Smokey

Elaine Boosler

"When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking."

Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War

At the beginning of an undertaking the enthusiasm is always greatest. And at that time, both in the Peloponnesus and in Athens there were great numbers of young men who had never been in a war, and were consequently far from unwilling to join in this one.

Germaine Greer

"Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a great deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe."

Jeff Cooper

"The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory."

When seconds count, the police are minutes away.

Or in my case, maybe an hour or so.

Robert A. Heinlein

"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them."

Careful what you say.

Security

He is best secure from dangers who is on his guard even when he seems safe.(Caret periculo, qui etiam tutus caveat)

Publius Syrus, 50 B.C.

Long Ago and Far Away

A good novel

An interesting book about something no one remembers anymore.

Jared Diamond

If you use a bolt action military rifle, you need stripper clips.

You can still get them if you look.

A useful book

I saw her off the coast of Lebanon.

Nobody will ever see a BB in action again.

Correct on both counts."

"You have to defend your honor. And your family."

Suzanne Vega

T-28 Trojan

My Hobby

A good general guide.

Huey

You can't tell the players without a program.

So many guns, so little time.

The Road

The book is great, and so is the movie.

A little of both.

“Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.”

Jeffery Rasley

Mountains

“Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful solace in them. At bottom, mountains, like all wildernesses, challenge our complacent conviction - so easy to lapse into - that the world has been made for humans by humans. Most of us exist for most of the time in worlds which are humanly arranged, themed and controlled. One forgets that there are environments which do not respond to the flick of a switch or the twist of a dial, and which have their own rhythms and orders of existence."

Robert McFarlane

Different Aircraft I have flown

Piper Comanche

T28B and T28C Trojan

T-34B Mentor

TH57- Sea Ranger

UH-1 Huey

TA4- Skyhawk

Cessna T-141

Piper Archer

Piper Arrow

Piper Tomahawk

Cessna 172

Cessna 150

About Me

I am a USMC veteran . I live a quiet life in a very rural county. We have one town, three lakes, a river and lots of forest. My hobbies include reloading, shortwave radio listening, and collecting old military rifles and side arms. I do my own gunsmithing. I flew different aircraft from 1972 through 1995, at which point I couldn't pass the flight physical anymore. I have worked or lived in 36 foreign countries.